If I was a jaded person and allowed my thought to be swayed by ulterior motives and such (God forbid) - I would start thinking that these changes generated more revenue for Medium or conversely, generated less money for everyone else and thus brought about the same result. While making it appear that everyone was having fun.
But then, I stopped being Jaded on November 4, 2016 and went to another place.
A lot of people here now -- pretty crowded. Price of real estate went way up - one small benefit to living here.
Hoping to move back to where I was though.